2020 Taiwanese legislative election
The 2020 Taiwanese legislative election was held on 11 January 2020 for all 113 seats to the Legislative Yuan concurrently with the 15th presidential election in Taiwan.[2] The term of the Legislative Yuan began on 1 February 2020.
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All 113 seats in the Legislative Yuan 57 seats needed for a majority | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Registered | 19,221,861[lower-alpha 1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Turnout | 74.93%[lower-alpha 2] ![]() | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) lost seven seats but retained a majority of 61 seats in the Legislative Yuan. The Kuomintang gained three seats, winning 38. The New Power Party won three seats, down from five in the last election. The Taiwan People's Party and Taiwan Statebuilding Party entered the Legislative Yuan with five seats and one seat, respectively, with five independent candidates winning their seats and the People First Party losing all of their seats.
Electoral system
Members were elected by parallel voting. 73 members were elected by first-past-the-post, 6 reserved for indigenous candidates by single non-transferable vote, and 34 by party-list proportional representation.
Constituency changes
In 2019, after negotiations between the Presidents of the Executive and Legislative Yuans, changes to the electoral divisions include:[3]
- Kaoshiung and Pingtung each lost a seat.
- Tainan and Hsinchu County each gained a seat.
- The boundary between Taichung II and Taichung VII was adjusted.
Contesting parties and candidates
Party | General seats | Aboriginal seats | Party list | Total | |
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Democratic Progressive Party | 67 | 2 | 33 | 102 | |
Kuomintang | 71 | 5 | 31 | 107 | |
Taiwan People's Party | 17 | - | 28 | 45 | |
New Power Party | 5 | - | 11 | 16 | |
Taiwan Statebuilding Party | 10 | - | 6 | 16 | |
People First Party | 10 | - | 22 | 32 | |
Green Party | 10 | 1 | 6 | 17 | |
New Party | - | - | 10 | 10 | |
Taiwan Action Party Alliance | 11 | - | 5 | 16 | |
Stabilizing Force Party | 9 | 2 | 10 | 21 | |
Taiwan Solidarity Union | - | - | 7 | 7 | |
Congress Party Alliance | 13 | - | 6 | 19 | |
Chinese Unification Promotion Party | 10 | - | 7 | 17 | |
Interfaith Union | 12 | - | 8 | 20 | |
Formosa Alliance | 10 | 2 | 6 | 18 | |
Labor Party | 10 | - | 2 | 12 | |
United Action Alliance | 10 | 2 | 8 | 20 | |
Taiwan Renewal Party | 11 | 1 | 6 | 18 | |
Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party | 9 | 1 | 4 | 14 | |
Taiwan Labor Party | 3 | - | - | 3 | |
Independent | 86 | 5 | - | 91 | |
Others | 26 | 0 | 0 | 26 | |
Total | 410 | 21 | 216 | 647 | |
Opinion polling

Results
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Party | Party-list | Constituency/Aboriginal | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
Democratic Progressive Party | 4,811,241 | 33.98 | 13 | 6,383,783 | 45.11 | 48 | 61 | –7 | |
Kuomintang | 4,723,504 | 33.36 | 13 | 5,761,995 | 40.71 | 25 | 38 | +3 | |
Taiwan People's Party | 1,588,806 | 11.22 | 5 | 264,478 | 1.87 | 0 | 5 | New | |
New Power Party | 1,098,100 | 7.75 | 3 | 141,952 | 1.00 | 0 | 3 | –2 | |
People First Party | 518,921 | 3.66 | 0 | 60,614 | 0.43 | 0 | 0 | –3 | |
Taiwan Statebuilding Party | 447,286 | 3.16 | 0 | 141,503 | 1.00 | 1 | 1 | New | |
Green Party Taiwan | 341,465 | 2.41 | 0 | 39,387 | 0.28 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
New Party | 147,373 | 1.04 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Taiwan Action Party Alliance | 143,617 | 1.01 | 0 | 20,134 | 0.14 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Stabilizing Force Party | 94,563 | 0.67 | 0 | 28,696 | 0.20 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Taiwan Solidarity Union | 50,435 | 0.36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Congress Party Alliance | 40,331 | 0.28 | 0 | 81,508 | 0.58 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Chinese Unification Promotion Party | 32,966 | 0.23 | 0 | 8,790 | 0.06 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Interfaith Union | 31,117 | 0.22 | 0 | 7,702 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Formosa Alliance | 29,324 | 0.21 | 0 | 12,742 | 0.09 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Labor Party | 19,941 | 0.14 | 0 | 13,694 | 0.10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
United Action Alliance | 17,515 | 0.12 | 0 | 15,846 | 0.11 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Taiwan Renewal Party | 11,952 | 0.08 | 0 | 41,891 | 0.30 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party | 11,681 | 0.08 | 0 | 6,063 | 0.04 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Taiwan Animal Protection Party | 7,660 | 0.05 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Chinese Women's Party | 3,507 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Judicial Justice Party | 3,336 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Labour Party | 2,451 | 0.02 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Taiwan Revolutionary Party | 2,088 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Taiwan Labor Party | 2,041 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Cheng Hua Chao Sheng Dang | 1,999 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
People's Democratic Party | 1,870 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Taiwan Motive Force Party | 1,356 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Chinese Culture Revival Party | 1,296 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Taiwan Independence Party | 939 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Kinmen Kao-Liang Party | 899 | 0.01 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Positive Party | 623 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Tianzhou Peaceful Unity Family Party | 574 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Chinese Peace Unification Party | 570 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Taiwan Public Interest Party | 534 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Round Party | 488 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Chinese New Inhabitant Party | 428 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Min Sheng Gong Yi | 417 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Taiwan Manipulative Therapist Union Labour Party | 366 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Deaf Nation Party | 352 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Cheng Hua United Party | 306 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Free Speech Coalition | 290 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Hsing Chung Ting Meng Hui | 155 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Chung Hua Ai Kuo Tung Hsin Dang | 134 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Chinese Production Party | 112 | 0.00 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
Independents | 1,086,463 | 7.68 | 5 | 5 | +4 | ||||
Total | 14,160,138 | 100.00 | 34 | 14,152,032 | 100.00 | 79 | 113 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 14,160,138 | 97.95 | 14,152,032 | 98.26 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 296,155 | 2.05 | 250,043 | 1.74 | |||||
Total votes | 14,456,293 | 100.00 | 14,402,075 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 19,312,105 | 74.86 | 19,221,861 | 74.93 | |||||
Source: CEC, Election Study Center |
By constituency
Aboriginal constituencies
Party | Lowlands | Highlands | Total seats | +/– | |||||
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Votes | % | Seats | Votes | % | Seats | ||||
Kuomintang | 78,153 | 64.12 | 2 | 50,093 | 34.61 | 1 | 3 | –1 | |
Democratic Progressive Party | 25,843 | 21.20 | 1 | 25,772 | 17.81 | 1 | 2 | +1 | |
Taiwan Renewal Party | 5,020 | 4.12 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Formosa Alliance | 2,958 | 2.43 | 0 | 577 | 0.40 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Stabilizing Force Party | 1,273 | 1.04 | 0 | 1,241 | 0.86 | 0 | 0 | New | |
Green Party Taiwan | 1,163 | 0.80 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
United Action Alliance | 1,029 | 0.84 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Sovereign State for Formosa & Pescadores Party | 366 | 0.25 | 0 | 0 | New | ||||
Independents | 7,604 | 6.24 | 0 | 65,512 | 45.27 | 1 | 1 | +1 | |
Total | 121,880 | 100.00 | 3 | 144,724 | 100.00 | 3 | 6 | 0 | |
Valid votes | 121,880 | 97.89 | 144,724 | 98.07 | |||||
Invalid/blank votes | 2,624 | 2.11 | 2,848 | 1.93 | |||||
Total votes | 124,504 | 100.00 | 147,572 | 100.00 | |||||
Registered voters/turnout | 199,833 | 62.30 | 215,115 | 68.60 | |||||
Source: CEC[4][5][6][7] |
See also
Notes
- District and aboriginal electorate; party-list electorate size was 19,312,105
- District and aboriginal electorate; party-list voter turnout was 74.86%
- Proportional seats
- former New Power Party member, re-elected in 2020
- Number of seats reduced by one; all seats previously held by DPP
- Elected member Su Chen-ching is a member of DPP but ran as an independent
- Kao Chin Su-mei ran as an Independent in the election, but she is affiliated to the NPSU
References
- "中選會資料庫網站". cec.gov.tw (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 May 2020. Retrieved 29 January 2020.
- Wang, Cheng-chung; Ko, Lin (19 March 2019). "Presidential, legislative elections to be held Jan. 11, 2020". Central News Agency. Archived from the original on 21 March 2019. Retrieved 19 March 2019.
- 蘇嘉全、賴清德協商立委選區定案 僅屏東再微調 Archived 9 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine Mirror Media, 7 January 2019 (in Chinese)
- "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
- "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
- "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..
- "The 15th Presidential and Vice Presidential Election and The 10th Legislator Election". www.cec.gov.tw. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020..